Re: Can you give me any top tips on getting started as a chef?

Re: Can you give me any top tips on getting started as a chef?

Nics tips Jamie, thanks for sharing with us!

I will tell a experience i´ve passed here in Brazil. We are still getting on in the world of high gastronomy and besides São Paulo, the other cities or states has only few good restaurants or no one at all. I searched for a job in the two most commented in my region, and got in one of them.

The chef is French, and has a good name, but what was my surprise when i find out that he was never in the restaurant, so the kitchen was camanded by a guy with no formation at all that not delegated any tasks. All the food was frozen and the two microwaves works much more than i.

I´ve ended up neraly loosing all the passion i have in cooking, scared and thinking if all restaurants would be like that.

So be careful on where you will work for free, ´cause all can win you can loose too;

Re: Can you give me any top tips on getting started as a chef?

Done Dori. You used to (and may still have) a good catering college in St George's, where I have visited, knowing a chef lecturer who worked there for 2 years. However, if it's your intention to live in Essex, I would suggest you somewhere like the Harlow council who I'm sure will advise you on who you should contact.

Good hunting.

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